Cleat for baseball shoes



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0mm FOR BASEBALL SHOEQ Filed NOV. 24, 1928 Patented IAug. 13, .19294.y

DANIEL J'. GOLDEN, 0F BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CLEAT FOR BASEBALL SHOES.

Application tiled November 24, 1928.4 Serial No. 321,678.

This invention relates to a cleat attachable to the tread face of theforepart of a baseball shoe bottom, and having downwardly projectingground-engaging spurs adapted to prevent endwise and lateral slipping ofthe tread, the cleat comprising a body adapted to be engaged by rivetsattaching it to the shoe bottom, and spurs integral with and projectingfrom the'body.v Three spurs arc essential, viz, a front spur adjacentthe toe end of the tread face and located on the longitudinal medianline thereof, and two lateral spurs behind the front spur and located atopposite sides of said median line, the front spur being adapted toprevent endwise slip, and the lateral spurs to prevent side slip.

The lateral spurs should be located forward of the salient curve at theball portion of the tread face, in order that-they may project from theportion of the 'tread face which extends forward from the ball portion,and is maintained substantially iiat by the usual thin steel plateinterposed between an outer and inner layer of the shoe bottom,

the rear end of said plate extending into the ball portion.

Heretofore in a cleat of this character, the cleat body has been ofsubstantially triangular form, its rear end extending between the twolateral spurs and being entirely forward of and spaced from the curvedballv portion, so that the latter is exposed to wear and is liable to beworn away by the rough usage to which the shoel is subjected, until anopening is formed through which the rear end of the stifening plateprotrudes. The effective life of a baseball shoe in vmany cases, ismaterially shortened by this liability. v

My invention is embodied in a cleat, the rear end portion of the body ofwhich projects rearwardly. from the two lateral spurs, and overlaps theball portion of the tread r face, to protect said ball portion againstWear, the body being oblong and its rearwardly projecting portion beingprovided with a spur located on the longitudinal median line of the bodyand constituting a supplemental ground-engaging means, supplementing themeans provided by the front and lateral spurs. Of the accompanyingdrawings forming a part of this specilication,-

Figure 1 is a bottom plan view of a baseball shoe provided with myimproved cleat.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary side view, shown partly in section on theplane indicated by line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the improved cleat.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all of thefigures.

The forepart of the shoe bottom shown by Figures 1 and 2, includes anouter layer 12, and an inner layer 18, the layer 12 belng, inthisinstance, a ta whose outer side is the tread face of the orepart, Whilethe layer 13 is a flexible sole member extending the full length of theshoe. The layers 12 and 13 may be attached to each other and to the shoeupper in any suitable way, and are stiffened by a thin steel plate 14,interposed-between the layers, the rear portion of the plate beingwithin the saliently curved ball portion of the tread face, designatedby 15. The forward portion of the plate extends nearly to the toe of theshoe bottom, and the major portion of the plate usually ilnparts asubstantially la't form to the bottom between the ball portion 15 andthe toe, as shown by Figure 2.

The body 16 of my improved cleat is oblong, and formed to bear on thetread face of the forepart of the shoe bottom, and to extend between twopoints on the longitudinal median line of said tread face, one pointbeing adjacent the toe end of the tread face, and the other on the ballportion 15, as shown by Figures 1 and 2.

The cleat` comprises ground-engaging spurs integral with the body andincluding a front spur 17, projecting from the front end of the body, arear spur 18, projectin from the rear end of the body, the spurs 1g and18 being on the longitudinal median line of the body, and twointermediate spurs 19, projecting from the body at opposite sides of themedian line thereof.

The spurs 17 and 19 have the usual relative arrangement found in theOrdinar cleat 'having a substantially triangular bo y, the

rear end portion of which extends directly from one spur 19 to the otherwithout projecting rearwardly from said spurs.

In my improved cleat the rear end portion of the body, and the rear spur18 thereon, are extended rearwardly from the spurs 19, and are formed.and arranged to overlap the curved ball portion 15, and prevent wear ofi Said ball portion,

the "rea-r spur 1 8 providing Y a, si'ipplementalr ground-engagxng'.Vmeans,

supplementing the means- 'y The body 16 is rig-idly attachable as usual,

by rivets' 20,'engaging the layers 12 and 13 and the stiifening plate14, as shown by' Figure'2. i l Y The spurs 19,'1ocated between the endskof the oblong body, and between the endspurs 17 and 18, may be calledintermediate spurs.

Ielaim: v A cleat for 'a baseball shoe, comprising an oblong body, and'ground-engaging spurs integral with said body, ineludinga front spurprojecting from the front end of the body,

the bodyat opposite sides of the median line thereof, the rear endportion of the body and the rear Spur thereon projecting rearwardly from`the intermediate Spurs and providing a supplemental ground-engagingmeans at vthe rear end ofthe cleat supplementing the means provided bythe front and intermediate spurs, the body being rigidly attachable to ashoe bottom.

In testimony whereof I have aixed my sign ature.

DANIEL J. GOLDEN-

